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Newshawk: Beth
Pubdate: Tue, 22 Aug 2006
Source: Lowell Sun (MA)
Copyright: 2006 MediaNews Group, Inc.
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Website: http://www.lowellsun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/852
Author: Dennis Shaughnessey, Sun Staff
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/hr.htm (Harm Reduction)
GOV HOPEFUL VISITS LOWELL'S CBA
LOWELL -- While she does not line up completely with the Statewide
Harm Reduction Coalition, ( SHaRC ) Green Rainbow Party gubernatorial
candidate Grace Ross does agree the state is throwing good money after bad.
"Part of what worries me and part of the reason I'm running for
governor is that we've heard all the rhetoric, but the state is still
paying $43,000 a year for a prisoner who needs a rehab bed," Ross
said. "It's the policy issues at the state level that have me
concerned. There are basic solutions that we are not looking at."
Ross was in Lowell yesterday, following hard on the heels of SHaRC's
day-long van tour calling for a moratorium on jail and prison
construction in Massachusetts. After visiting the construction site
of the Chicopee women's jail and traveling to the People In Peril
Homeless Shelter in Worcester, the group made its way to the
Coalition for a Better Acre in Lowell to discuss community needs,
such as affordable housing and drug-treatment programs, among other things.
[Remainder snipped]
MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman
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